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HappySqurriel on 28 April 2011
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fps_d0minat0r said:
HappySqurriel said:
fps_d0minat0r said:

why would they put an SSD instead of a standard HDD? and i dont believe 90% of the third party list. but then again they mentioned pc and 360 ports were easy in that dodgy screenshot.


If this was true (not claiming that it is) I would expect that by SSD they mean a flash card (or multiple flash cards) built into the system. The reason for this is that flash is very small, energy efficient, reliable and inexpensive to manufacture which means that (while it might be as expensive as a hard-drive initially) adding 64GB or 128GB of disc space would cost very little by the middle of the generation.


a flash card?

i thought SSD was solid state drive....like a faster, stronger and much expensive version of HDD?

While, in pc equipment a solid state drive is a very specific item, it is actually a fairly generic term; and a flash drive can be considered a type of solid state drive. Hypothetically speaking, you could take multiple chips from inside of a flash card and mount them on a mother board to produce a very large and fast "hard-drive" if you wanted to; and if you're planning to sell tens of millions of systems and licence the technology entirely upfront (making the per-unit cost effectively the pure manufacturing cost) it could be quite inexpensive.